Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Strength is not just in muscle and bone, " Rovender said"That is right, " Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.

We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.

I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

All I want is to have my peace of mind...

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

THE JOURNEY IS FROM HERE TO HERE. AND THE ONLY TIME YOU CAN ARRIVE IS NOW.

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.